• Readers choose a topic to research by thinking about what they are interested in
• Readers warm up their minds before they read a nonfiction text by taking a picture walk
• Readers make sense of their reading by asking' what is the author trying to teach me?
• Readers have conversations about nonfiction books by asking ‘why do you think that?

Expert Projects: Writing to Learn & to Teach a Topic of Personal Expertise

• Writers teach with their writing by thinking about the people, the places and the things they love

• Writers make their ideas clearer by adding more words to they chapter titles

• Writers shock their readers by saying ‘You may think…, but really..!”

• PUBLISH
  
  

The following topics will be discussed:

• To identify coin combinations equal to $1

• To add and subtract money amounts

• To choose the best strategy to solve a problem

• To estimate temperature and read a thermometer

• To measure time to the hour and half hour

• to tell time to the quarter hour

• Game Day

• How can people harm natural resources?
• How can people protect our natural resources?
• Vocabulary – pollution, landfills, reuse, reduce, endangered
  
  
   

Brooklyn-Then & Now

 

- Continue study of Brooklyn

- Vocabulary – Brooklyn Cyclones, Nathan’s, Shirley Chisolm
 

The second grade teachers want to thank the parents for their continued support and cooperation.

Reading with your child every night, makes a difference. Excitement is contagious. When
you're excited, your child will be excited, Our goal this year is to inspire your children to love
reading and love learning.

Looking forward to a wonderful year!

Best wishes
The second grade teachers